War & Militarism

(A royal marine murdered an injured insurgent in Afghanistan by shooting him in the chest at close range, a British court martial board found Friday.

According to prosecutors, he told fellow soldiers to hush it up and acknowledged: ‘‘I just broke the Geneva Convention.’’

The board ruled that the commando, who can only be identified as Marine A, was guilty of killing the unnamed man in Helmand Province in September 2011.

"It is a matter of profound regret in this isolated incident that one marine failed to apply his training and discharge his responsibilities,’’ Brigadier Bill Dunham, of the Royal Marines, said in a statement.

‘‘It was a truly shocking and appalling aberration. It should not have happened and it should never happen again.’’)